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Jack White
14 Apr 2003 by Matthew Linderman
The new Flaming Lips EP features a song titled “Thank You Jack White (For The Fiber Optic Jesus That You Gave Me).” Also, The Onion interviews Jack White in this week’s issue.
That’s the best compliment of all, when a kid likes it, because you know they’re not lying. A young child… When they get older, they start maybe liking what everybody else likes, but little kids don’t lie. I love that, because it seems like… I don’t know what it might be that appeals to them. Maybe there’s some sort of cartoony aspect of our band that on one level appeals to them. People tell us, “Our 5-year-old listens to you all day long, and knows the lyrics to certain songs.” It’s flattering.
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14 Apr 2003 | Don Schenck said...
As The Flaming Lips akin to Cake, one of my favorite groups?
14 Apr 2003 | paul said...
the new white stripes, elephant, is definitely one of my fav albums so far this year. gotta love indie rock that does well with the masses but still sounds like indie rock.
14 Apr 2003 | Toby said...
Just got Elephant for my birthday (yea me). Sweet.
Still need to get me that Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
14 Apr 2003 | yuckmouth said...
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is no Soft Bulletin. It's good, just not Soft Bulletin good.
14 Apr 2003 | Michael S. said...
I remember playing some Talking Heads album at a family gathering and a younger kid liked the music. That meant something to me, that it could appeal to any age group. Older folks seem to get caught up in the lyrics, or whether if fits a certain style, or has a "fresh" sound or whatever.
22 Apr 2003 | barny said...
i read somewhere [possibly the nme] that jack white saw the fibre optic jesus in a store in london somewhere, and thought 'that's just the thing', bought it, and gave it to the flaming lips as a random pressie... they we're so impressed that they wrote a song about it...
